and I prsteDAted I was asleep while listening to her preysra ~ She

would bend do1~i over the bed awl stretching her aras so as tc~ take us all In ‚ she praye~1 with ail her soul to God to help her bring up her chU4.ren right . Do‘ t think now that she lot God do it all ;~ she helped God ‚ bless your lite ‚ by keeping a switch right at hand. ~ ‘~UncIe Dave you d1&U‘ t hare to be chastised, did you? ~
~: ~ ~	i got tv:~ or thre whippings ~ eTery dey . You see my m~other didu‘ t let God do lt all. You know it you spare the rod you spoil the child ‚ and that switch at1~ulated ‚ regulated ‚ perauadd end strength~« ened ~y me~ry, end i~nt a long way toward making me do the things my mother told me to do. Hurrah for ~y ~thr1 God. bissa her ~ about your father ‚ Uncle Dave? ‘~$~y father ‘ias a good Ins“ ; he backed my ~ther in h.r siforts to bring us up right . Re told ~e ~eny a tus. ‚ ‘soy ‚ you ned t~ or three killings ~

•da,y:~ ‘~Uncls Dare why were you so obstreperoua?~ ~‚ you see I was the baby in the fa~aily a long ise, as three brothers born alter ~ died in infancy . I was pettsd end ~poi1.d ‚ aM lat.r on
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they had to ~bip lt out of as.

	of oourse the 81aTe17 quation ~as fast drawing to its oliaez when I was born. Already war clouds .~~!fto cast a 8hadOW. While treedoa was not had in Georgia until 1865 ‚ I Was hardly old eno~igh to rsassbr OP-~û Tory auch about the early customs at 81YSr7 in prei.~war days . We had comfortable quarters in ~ich to live. Our houses were built in long r~s ‚ house after house . My father was carriage driver and foresen of the other nigger.. Eis titl• was B .L‘~ ~~incle Dave ~hat does BJ. stand for?‘~*ith this qusetion to an~sr ‚ Uncle Days broke into a apa of laught.r ‚ beading dßILbls first, then rocking fr~ aid. to side ‚ all the tise laughing